This post could also be titled, who would you give up your Sunday sleep in for? Or invite to dinner?
Well that's easy. Barack and Michelle, Richie ( of course) Sir Peter Jackson, Wills and Kate, Dr Lance Sullivan, Dame Ann Salmond, Ellie Catton, Lorde...
But another question might be who would you give up your Sunday sleep in for or part of your weekend or holiday to go and listen to. Who do you think is worth listening to?
A good question really and one that not only colleagues might ask, but also family. However, attending educamps, lectures and workshops in the weekend(and holidays), I see this as an opportunity to connect with other educators, learn, be inspired and re-energised to teach again on Monday. I have written previous posts on the value of personal PD, some of it where I have been sitting on my deck in the sun, learning.
However, events such as ULearn, MLE, Festival of Education, MLearn14, CoreEd breakfasts are just some of professional learning opportunities I have attended recently.
The opportunity to listen to international educators, sharing their views and experience is as the advert states "priceless". Over the last few months I have listened to Professor Stephen Heppell, Dr Julia Aitken, Kevin Honeycutt, Ken Shelton, Professor Steve Wheeler, Christian Long and Professor Michael Fullan. Professor Scott McLeod of the famous Shift Happens video and was a guest lecturer on one of my Masters papers at the University of Canterbury.
Add onto the list Fabulous NZ educators such as Derek Wenmoth, Mark Osborne, Karen Melhuish, Chrissie Butler, Claire Amos and maybe you can see why I am happy to give up a few hours of my weekend to listen to presenters who I see as education heroes.
Oh, and did I mention, I sat next to the current Education Minister on Sunday morning.
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